Two seasons after winning Super Bowl XXXIV against the Tennessee Titans, the St. Louis Rams were back in the big game. They played for their second Lombardi Trophy in three years against the New England Patriots, who came out of nowhere in Bill Belichick’s second season, making it all the way to Super Bowl XXXVI after finishing the year 11-5.

The Rams, on the other hand, were in the midst of a dynasty, going 14-2 while leading the NFL in points for the third straight year. They were 14-point favorites against the Patriots in that final game of the postseason, but Rams fans are all too familiar with how that turned out.

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Much has been made about that game even 16 years later, given the controversy that surrounded it and the conspiracy that the Patriots filmed the Rams’ walkthrough before the Super Bowl. There’s no concrete proof that it happened, but several Rams players still believe they were cheated out of a ring.

Orlando Pace is among them, sharing his thoughts about it on Tuesday.

More Rams players saying the Pats maybe cheated. This time Orlando Pace to PFT Live: “There’s a little bit of suspicion there. I think guys all feel that way. They had a pretty solid game plan for us, so I don’t know. . . . They knew exactly what we were going to do down there.”

Isaac Bruce echoed the same idea last week, saying “off the record,” he believes the Patriots did film their walkthrough before the Super Bowl.

“And I think it gave them an edge as well,” Bruce said. “I mean, you know, we were really rolling that year, and no one covered us. It’s funny, TMZ never came out with that tape, you never saw that tape!”

Bruce added that the Patriots signed Terrell Buckley a few weeks before the Super Bowl, which he believes was a questionable move at the time, too.

“He was beating us to spots! He was beating us to spots, and he hadn’t been there that long, and he was on the street, so, you know, the reason he was on the street, but he came in, and he was beating us to spots, and he was making plays that game, so, something was going on,” Bruce said.

The Rams would go on to lose that game 20-17 on Adam Vinatieri’s game-winning field goal as time expired, but the legend of it will never die. The belief that New England cheated will never go away as long as we live.

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